‘He said: ‘Operation Delivery is kicking in and there's evidence that we are down in terms of crime while detections are up.’’

‘The incident came close on the heels of a series of robbery detections made by four police stations of South Mumbai early last morning.’

‘He said the 10,433 drink driving detections by Gardaí last year was paltry compared to 200,000 speeding offences detected.’

‘This year, detections and arrests are up, crime is down and we are forging ahead.’

‘Up to the end of June, Gardai made 362 drink driving detections compared with 580 for the entire of 2000.’

‘This year, though we have doubled the crime figures, we have had a lot more detections.’

‘He said drug detections made up 40% of all recorded crime, with 67 detected drug offences compared to 18 at this stage in 2002.’

‘However, the division is attempting to address the problem and has put the figures down to an increase in street crime and a lack of detections in the statistics.’

‘There is no social barrier to under-age drinking or anti-social behaviour, and detections have been made by Gardaí in all areas of the city.’

‘In Co Louth, Gardaí said there was a noticeable decrease in speed and detections on main Dublin-to-Belfast road were down.’

‘The Garda figures for last year show a considerable increase in drunk driving detections with 591 people arrested for drink driving.’

‘Already this year there have been 507 drunk driving detections (to the end of Oct) compared to a total of 453 for last year’

‘We are developing a number of strategies to that end including improving forensic techniques, such as use of DNA and fingerprint and footprint images to improve detections.’

‘We have officers working to reduce crime because this is what people want to see happening and this is our priority, but as professionals we must always solve it and this must be seen in the number of detections.’

‘However, while we have made detections regarding both drugs there is very little evidence that either are widely available.’

‘Motorists in Mayo are complying with seatbelt legislation with detections for the non-wearing of seatbelts dropping by approximately 80% since 2001.’

‘It is encouraging to see that our officers and staff continue tirelessly in their efforts to boost detections.’

‘He revealed that there was ‘a slight increase’ in drunk-driving detections in Sligo / Leitrim in the two-week period leading up to Christmas.’

‘The World Customs Organisation ranked Bulgarian Customs first in the number of heroin detections along the ‘Balkan Route’ in 2002, he said.’

‘The number of detections for both offences was in the bottom quarter of the performance of all forces.’